Artist Statement

Derbyshire-based artist who studied at Chesterfield College of Art and Leeds University in the 1960s and 70s. I have exhibited extensively, both with groups and singly.
My work is the product of a lifetime of collecting. I have never been a minimalist or a subscriber to the idea that less is more. To me “let’s have lots more” is a guiding principle. My influences are cabinets of curiosity, religious shrines and reliquaries, myths and mystical creatures, ancestry worship and, above all, dolls in all their strangeness.
I love bright shiny things, glitter paint and the cast-off objects of past childhoods. Each work tells a story but what that story is, is for the viewer to decide.